Full Kee Sunday lunch? or..?

[helenahimm]

Hi Hi, so tomorrow (Sunday) I will be going to a game around 1pm at the Verizon Center and I am looking where to have lunch. I read about Nandos Peri Peri, Chinatown Express, Matchbox (so as you can see i don't have a preference yet... as long as it is not ridiculously expensive, not real budget but remember I will be wearing jeans so nothing fancy =)

Now, it is going to be very cold =( so I wouldn't like having to walk more than 6 blocks to go to eat, or taking metro to go to another place (Sunday metro rides are awful, 1 train every 20 mins or so and that if it is not being fixed).

I will appreciate any recommendations for this lunch, and at the end if nothings works I guess I will give Mr. Andres another chance in Jaleo.

Thanks =D

[helenahimm]

Anyone awake? Partner doesn't feel like having asian neither Peri Peri's food =( So I think we will end up going to Matchbox. I was reading the brunch menu, it doesn't look bad, has anyone tried it?

For what I've read people go there for their mini burgers and pizza, I don't feel like having either, so I guess I will take a chance with Crab Soup and I dunno. I will let you guys know what I ended up having.

cheers

[Steve]

I was at Matchbox not long ago. The place was packed with a 45 minute wait for tables. I was seated near the kitchen of this rather large restaurant (the Capitol Hill location). I would say that close to 100% of the product coming out of the kitchen was the min-burgers. The pizza is not made in the kitchen, but out in the open, so a lot of folks were getting that as well. Every once in a while I saw a salad pass by, and that's about it.

We got the mini-burgers, which were excellent as usual.

[helenahimm]

Thanks guys for your info.

I am a little concerned.. I can't take spices, heat and greasy stuff, but the truth is that when I usually have chinese food, it just upsets my stomach, now that I am thinking I have to stay for at least 2 hours for that game @ the Verizon Center so I am a little freaked out for the idea of having (the duck stuffed oyster casserole) sounds delicious, but is it a heavy dish?

I even thought of going to the Ping Pong place that everyone says is pretty close to Chinatown, but then the whole idea of paying $30 per person and still be very hungry I do not like it, I like feeling I have eaten something, not just tasting, unless I am drinking...

Do you think Full Kee I could order also a good non seafood dish? (partner doesn't eat seafood, just on ceviche and just white fish... some salmon).

Now I just came from Pho75 and realized I don't want noodles tomorrow haha... mmm @ Full Kee appetizers, which ones do you like the most?

(on my way to Bethesda to try bakeries, I was told french bakeries the best ones are in Bethesda...because of the French community or something like that...) (sorry for the change of topic).

[Steve]

Go to Full Kee. In addition to what deangold said, my favorites are the duck stuffed with shrimp paste and the oyster and ginger casserole.

[CoconutMilk]

I've not been in a few years, but the second floor of Tony Cheng's restaurant in Chinatown had serviceable dim sum at one point. That was my go-to place before going to G-town games at Verizon. Its not a far walk at all.

[deangold]

A bowl of Shrimp Dumpling noodle soup and a plate of fried leed stems {Fried Leek stems & blossoms} wold be a pretty good antidote to the cold. The salt & pepper fried three seafood dish is a really good plate of fried shrimp, scallop & squid with green chili slices. I have had mixed service issues.

New Big Wong has some really good, if not cheap, seafood. DO not order blindly off the menu as most of it is Americanized crap. But engage the staff in a discussion of seafood, greens, soups and some special dishes and you should be able to eat well. I always order my seafood first as it seems to make them comfortable suggesting more adventurous meat dishes. I think they do a fine black pepper beef rib (thin, cross cut short ribs, the kind called LA Rib in Korean markets or some Korean BBQ's.

Chinatown Express hand pulls noodles which I find best in broth with seafood. Nothing great about the dish except for the noodle itself, but super cheap. At one time the roast meats were superb, but then went down hill. Have not been recently so can't say how they are these days but if they have returned to form they would be good. In any case, if you use enough of the garlic and leek sauces on the table, they will be good sauce delivery devices. Do not go in to the bathrooms, do not look at the carpet. This is a dingy dive but the noodles are really nice. I used to like the soup dumplings {called juicy pork buns} but the last time I ate them (over a year ago or more) they were doughy. The filling and soup within were superb.